Prosecutors: Driver in hit-and-run replaced windshield before turning himself in

A Chicago man replaced his car’s windshield and waited two days before turning himself in on hit-and-run charges from a crash that left a woman in a coma, prosecutors said.

William Davis, 27, had just turned onto Pulaski Road from Lake Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood when he hit the 52-year-old pedestrian about 9 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. He turned himself in Friday night at the Central District police station in the South Loop neighborhood, prosecutors said.

On Sunday, Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. ordered him held on $300,000 bond on charges of leaving the scene, failing to report the crash, driving on a suspended license and failing to show due care for a pedestrian. Davis grimaced at the bond amount as he left the courtroom, complaining to a sheriff’s deputy, “I turned myself in.”

Prosecutors said Sunday the woman remained in a coma at Mount Sinai Hospital. Hospital spokeswoman Dianne Hunter said the woman’s family asked Mount Sinai officials not to give details about her condition.

Prosecutors said Davis of the 4600 block of West Adams Street had the windshield changed on his 2006 Buick Lucerne Sedan before turning himself in.

The crash came four days after another hit-and-run accident on the same block of Pulaski that sent a 53-year-old man to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. No new information on his condition was available Sunday.